Planting mechanism.



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PLANTING MECHANISM.

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NEELY s. riches, or DALLAS, TEXAS.

FLAN'i'iNG MEGHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed Fieptember 7,1906. $erial No- 333,878.

Patented May 21, 1907.

To all whose concern:

Be it known that i, NEELY B. Honest, a citizen .of-the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful ineither said capacity. For planting corn, a

sliding dropper is used and for planting octton a rotating worm is employed.

' In the drawings :Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of the hopper fitted with a cotton dropper. FigL-Z is a transversesectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizon- ?5 till sectional view of the hopper fitted with a corn dropper. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of therlower position of the same.

The bottom of the hopper, 1 'is provided withthe longitudinally extending opening 2.

3 The false bottom 3 is provided with the laterally extending edges or wings 4 which rest upon the upper surface of the bottom of the hopper 1 and the intermediate portion 5 which enters the opening 2 and. bears '35 against the edges thereof and prevents lateral movement of the said false bottom The rear edge of the false bottom 3 const1- tutes a seed delivery end of the said bottom.

- The said bottom 3 extends through the front The worm shaft 6 is journaled in the front and rear sides of the said hopper ,1 and the worm 7 co operates with the trough of the intermediate "portion f the false bottom 3. The stirrer 45 shaft 8 is located horizontally above the worm shaft 6 and the stirrer shaft 9 is located horizontally above the said shaft 8. The

K shafts 6, 8 and 9 are vertically in alinement The gear wheel '10 is at-- with each other. 5 tached to the end of the shaft? and. meshes with the gear wheel 11 which is attached to th' end of the shaft 8 and which in turn meshes with the gear wheel 12- attached to the end of the worm shaft 6. Any suitable means (not shown) may be provided for rotating the worm shaft 6 and it is obvious that through the chain of gears 12, 11 and 10 that the stirrer shafts will'be rotated, one in the same direction as the worm shaft 6 and the other in the opposite direction.

In the form of the invention as shown in Figs. .3' and 4 the slide 13 is substituted for the worm 7. Said slide is provided with the seed perforation 14 and a suitable means (not shown) is provided for reciprocating the said slide 13. The slide is used for dropping corn or other smooth seed. The perforation is reciprocated back and forth from the interior of the hopper 1 to the delivery edge of the false bottom 3 at which point the seed falls from the perforation 14.

In the form of the invention as illustrated in Figs. .1 and 2 the worm 7 is used for passing cotton seed or other lint bearing seed from the hopper. The-said seed will follow the Worm to the said end of the false bottom 3 at Whichpoint it falls to the ground. The front and rear. sides of the hopper are rovidedwith the vertically sliding gates 15w ich are adapted to close the openings made for the shafts as illustrated in the figuresfor in planting some seed, .it is desirable that the said shafts be removed from the hopper.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Aseed dropping hopper comprismg a body having at its bottom an opening extending from the front to the rear side of the body, a false bottom located in said opening and having laterally disposed wings'that rest upon the upper surface of the bottom of the body, and an intermediate depending pertion that fits within the opening in the bottom of the body and in its pper side a trough located in its longitudina axis, and a movmg seed separator located in the hopper and operating in said trough.

2. A hopper comprising a body having in its bottom an opening which extends from its front to its rear side, a false bottom located in said opening and having a seed delivery end, and a trough disposed along its central longitudinal axis, a seed separator operating Withinsaid trough to convey the seed from the my own, I have hereto affixedv my signature hopper to the delg'lvgry end of the false;1 bottom, in the presence of twowitnesses: stirrers mounte or rotation in t e upper Y portion of the hopper, one stirrer rotating in E HODGE" 5 one directionand the other stirrer rotating Witnesses:

in'the opposite direction. JOHN OHRISTMAN, In testnnony that I claim the foregoing'as O. C. ROBERTSON. 

